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Zritel', vol.1, no.1, June 5, 1905

A man looking out of a window (Zritel', vol.1, no.1, p.[1], June 5, 1905)

The cover page of Zritel', no.1, June 5, 1905. The color illustration depicts a man standing in a small dark room, which looks like a jail cell, staring through a window at red rays, presumably, those of the rising sun of revolution. "G. Gints?"has been penciled by the collector D.I. Koltel'nikov.; The Petersburg Governor-General D. F. Trepov characterized “Zritel’” in a letter of June 30, 1905 to the censors. He wrote: “Despite the system of innuendoes that the editors of this journal have adopted, as a consequence of which the reader is drawn into revolutionary ideas which are never stated explicitly in the text of the stories or in the captions to the illustrations; [but] the ideas being presented are so comprehensible and expressed so graphically that they leave no room for doubt in even a little developed mind. Thus for example in the first issue of the journal on the cover page there is a picture of a man in a dungeon looking out a window from which a blazing red sunset is visible” (cited in Botsianovskii and Gollerbakh, 176).